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Grammar Error Correction(GEC) mainly relies on the availability of high quality of large amount of synthetic parallel data of grammatically correct and erroneous sentence pairs. The quality of the synthetic data is evaluated on how well the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Vanya Bannihatti Kumar

Currently available grammatical error correction (GEC) datasets are compiled using well-formed written text, limiting the applicability of these datasets to other domains such as informal writing and dialog. In this paper, we present a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xun Yuan , Derek Pham , Sam Davidson , Zhou Yu

Despite its significance, Arabic, a linguistically rich and morphologically complex language, faces the challenge of being under-resourced. The scarcity of large annotated datasets hampers the development of accurate tools for subjectivity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Slimane Bellaouar , Attia Nehar , Soumia Souffi , Mounia Bouameur

There is a growing body of work in recent years to develop pre-trained language models (PLMs) for the Arabic language. This work concerns addressing two major problems in existing Arabic PLMs which constraint progress of the Arabic NLU and…

This paper introduces the Balanced Arabic Readability Evaluation Corpus (BAREC), a large-scale, fine-grained dataset for Arabic readability assessment. BAREC consists of 69,441 sentences spanning 1+ million words, carefully curated to cover…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Khalid N. Elmadani , Nizar Habash , Hanada Taha-Thomure

Word embeddings are a core component of modern natural language processing systems, making the ability to thoroughly evaluate them a vital task. We describe DiaLex, a benchmark for intrinsic evaluation of dialectal Arabic word embedding.…

Arabic dialect identification is a specific task of natural language processing, aiming to automatically predict the Arabic dialect of a given text. Arabic dialect identification is the first step in various natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Maha J. Althobaiti

The study of natural language, especially Arabic, and mechanisms for the implementation of automatic processing is a fascinating field of study, with various potential applications. The importance of tools for natural language processing is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Riadh Bouslimi , Houda Amraoui

We propose a novel language-independent approach to improve the efficiency for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) by dividing the task into two subtasks: Erroneous Span Detection (ESD) and Erroneous Span Correction (ESC). ESD identifies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Mengyun Chen , Tao Ge , Xingxing Zhang , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

Large language models have shown strong potential for Arabic medical text generation; however, traditional fine-tuning objectives treat all medical cases uniformly, ignoring differences in clinical severity. This limitation is particularly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ahmed Alansary , Molham Mohamed , Ali Hamdi

Semantic textual similarity (STS) is a critical task in natural language processing (NLP), enabling applications in retrieval, clustering, and understanding semantic relationships between texts. However, research in this area for the Arabic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Omer Nacar , Anis Koubaa , Serry Sibaee , Yasser Al-Habashi , Adel Ammar , Wadii Boulila

Ensemble approaches are commonly used techniques to improving a system by combining multiple model predictions. Additionally these schemes allow the uncertainty, as well as the source of the uncertainty, to be derived for the prediction.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Yassir Fathullah , Mark Gales , Andrey Malinin

In multi-label emotion classification, particularly for low-resource languages like Arabic, the challenges of class imbalance and label correlation hinder model performance, especially in accurately predicting minority emotions. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Wang Jun , Nisar Ahmed , Muhammad Imran Zaman , Li Yanan , Hu Hongfei , Wang Shiyu , Xin Liu

This paper presents the design and development of multi-dialect automatic speech recognition for Arabic. Deep neural networks are becoming an effective tool to solve sequential data problems, particularly, adopting an end-to-end training of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Abbas Raza Ali

Research on Korean grammatical error correction (GEC) is limited, compared to other major languages such as English. We attribute this problematic circumstance to the lack of a carefully designed evaluation benchmark for Korean GEC. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Soyoung Yoon , Sungjoon Park , Gyuwan Kim , Junhee Cho , Kihyo Park , Gyutae Kim , Minjoon Seo , Alice Oh

We present a graph-based approach enriched with lexicons to predict document-level readability in Arabic, developed as part of the Constrained Track of the BAREC Shared Task 2025. Our system models each document as a sentence-level graph,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Passant Elchafei , Mayar Osama , Mohamed Rageh , Mervat Abuelkheir

Grammatical error correction in English is a long studied problem with many existing systems and datasets. However, there has been only a limited research on error correction of other languages. In this paper, we present a new dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Jakub Náplava , Milan Straka

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is a task dedicated to rectifying texts with minimal edits, which can be decoupled into two components: detection and correction. However, previous works have predominantly focused on direct correction,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Wei Li , Houfeng Wang

One of the goals of automatic evaluation metrics in grammatical error correction (GEC) is to rank GEC systems such that it matches human preferences. However, current automatic evaluations are based on procedures that diverge from human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Takumi Goto , Yusuke Sakai , Taro Watanabe

Evaluation of grammatical error correction (GEC) systems has primarily focused on essays written by non-native learners of English, which however is only part of the full spectrum of GEC applications. We aim to broaden the target domain of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Simon Flachs , Ophélie Lacroix , Helen Yannakoudakis , Marek Rei , Anders Søgaard